WATERGATE: The Public: Disillusioned

From almost every region of
the country last week, the message for Richard Nixon was ominous. Now
it was not the outcry of his traditional liberal opponents that
threatened him. Instead, it was a swelling disillusionment and outrage
among many of his sturdiest supporters, his natural Republican and
Middle American constituency. In surprisingly large numbers Americans
were making their way through the long White House transcripts—at
least
four soft-backed versions were selling fast—and what they learned
from
those complex, intimate conversations...